Senior Poem Challenge 10/13/10

Read the following poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Then write response of about 100 words. You can write your own poem, a short "interpretation" of the poem, any connections you might think about, or a reaction to one of your classmates responses.


A Vast Confusion

Sounds of trains in the surf
in subways of the sea
And an even greater undersound
of a vast confusion in the universe
a rumbling and a roaring
as of some enormous creature turning
under sea and earth
a billion sotto voices murmuring
a vast muttering
a swelling stuttering
in ocean's speakers
world's voice-box heard with ear to sand
a shocked echoing
a shocking shouting
of all life's voices lost in night
And the tape of it
someow running backwards now
through the Moog Synthesizer of time
Chaos unscrambled
back to the first
harmonies
And the first light

Lawrence Ferlinghetti